Comments on: European pair still in the frame

By: Eireen

Eireen — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:00:44 +0000

The Democrats miss this time and again.You do get occasional flashes of brilliance. Witness John Edwards’ recent use of the term Brownie when referring to any potential Bush appointee to the AG role: something to the effect of “We don’t want any more Brownies.”Tragically, all those Karl Rove tricks are just good marketing. Rove isn’t an Einstein. He only knows how to do one thing, but he’s obsessed himself into perfecting it with all the freakish fanaticism of a compensator trying to overcome a father’s abandonment and sexual outlandishness and an unaffectionate mother’s early suicide.As is the case with any warped freak of nature, ordinary people can learn a lot from him regarding the one subject he is an ace on: getting candidates elected.

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:10:10 +0000

Not that I’m advocating the use of framesets, but how come nobody ever asks this question: why don’t search engines index framesets better? All the smart people work at search engine companies; some of them are even AI gurus. Framesets have been around for, what, at least a decade now, right?

By: Cristal

Cristal — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:19:36 +0000

Um… I didn’t think I was illiterate but I just don’t see where it says she swam the last 400m with the jellyfish stuck on her face?I read it as stinging her in the face at 400m from the finish, but not swimming with it the rest of the way.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:29:02 +0000

She starts with an assumption that the Dem candidates are against the war. I’m not really sure that this is the case.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:38:28 +0000

um, because dem politicians are not looking to frame the issue. When dems frame issues, it is about race and gender, and those issues have already been framed; in fact, crammed down america’s throat.Now all the issues are pure economic, and that is the GOP’s job to frame those issues. If the dems were to frame them in the way that Dems should, the overclass would oust any dem politician who did so. So they do not frame issues. Instead they try to WIN. Winning is all the dems have now.The overclass would not allow any issue oriented Dem to exist politically (unless that Dem is about race and gender and lifestyle issues–that’s OK by the overclass).so the gop pols frame issues, and the dems simply try to load up on character and competence issues. Dems don’t touch fundamental issues like the GOP does.

By: Jena

Jena — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:47:54 +0000

They have it figured out. Their corporate masters are telling them to take a dive and they obey.

By: Tyrell

Tyrell — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:57:20 +0000

First of all, if you want to interpret “equation” technically, an equals sign IS necessary for a formula to be an equation. The reaction rules you saw in chemistry class are not equations: they don’t satisfy congruence laws for substitution, nor are they even equivalence relations in general. What they are is rewrite rules, or inequalities. (Oh and, TeX equations are not equations either.)Second, this is really about parallelism or apposition in English, not technical issues. “Equation” is obviously not used in a technical sense in the title, and I know that because I know what equality is in a technical sense (and you, BTW, clearly don’t).But it starts with an assertion that something is an equation, followed by a colon, so naturally then I expect to see something which somehow on the surface resembles an equation or an equivalence: A is B. At least some predicate or something with two obvious parts implying an identity.Instead I am confounded by the sequel, which is not only not an apparent equivalence, but also capitalizes “WINS”, which encourages me at first to attempt to equate “he who frames the issue” and “the debate”, which is wrong.If you think that sentence is OK as it is, you need to revisit a good English style manual.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:06:46 +0000

Nope. No equation sign (or an English equivalent, “is”/”are”/etc.) is necessary for a formula to be an equation. Remember high school chemistry class, when you balanced an equation? That equation had →, or possibly ↔, but not =.So, “framing the debate → WIN” is a valid cause-and-effect equation.

By: Abel

Abel — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:16:12 +0000

That’s not an equation.Try “he who frames the issue is he who wins the debate,” or, “the one who frames the issue is the one who frames the debate.”

By: Melantha

Melantha — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:25:38 +0000

If you mean democrat voters… they already did the reminding, last election.If you mean democrat politicians, they don’t give a fuck.